Suite for Barbara Loden

Description

The second in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists.

“I believe there is a miracle in Wanda,” wrote Marguerite Duras of the only film American actress Barbara Loden ever wrote and directed. “Usually, there is a distance between representation and text, subject and action. Here that distance is completely eradicated.” It is perhaps this “miracle”–the seeming collapse of fiction and fact–that has made Wanda (1970) a cult classic, and a fascination of artists from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner to Kate Zambreno. For acclaimed French writer Nathalie Léger, the mysteries of Wanda launched an obsessive quest across continents, into archives, and through mining towns of Pennsylvania, all to get closer to the film and its maker. Suite for Barbara Loden is the magnificent result.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Nathalie Léger,Natasha Lehrer (Translator),Cécile Menon (Translator)
Published: 10/17/2016
Publisher: Dorothy a Publishing Project
ISBN: 9780997366600
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 0.50″ H x 6.80″ L x 5.50″ W

About the Author
Nathalie Léger is the award-winning author of Suite for Barbara Loden and The White Dress, as well as an editor and archivist. She has curated exhibitions on Roland Barthes and Samuel Beckett for the Centre Pompidou, and is Director of the Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine, an organization dedicated to preserving the archives of modern French writers.

Natasha Lehrer is an award-winning writer and literary translator. She has written features and book reviews for a variety of newspapers, including The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Observer.

Cécile Menon is a translator between French and English and the founder of the London-based publisher Les Fugitives.